Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-07-16
GENERAL NEWS.

The London Post (tory) in leader on thu
Spaldiup election urges complete COALITION
of the tories and unionists.
At Caperton. West Virginia, Lolly Robin
son shot and killed Charles Williams, hi
wife's paramour, and was subsequently
taken by mob from the officers ana lynch
ed. ALI the parties were coloreo.
Arrangements are making for the celebra-
ton at Genoa of the four hundredth
Columbus. ALI the states If America viii
be invited to participate.
Mr.. Parnell's physician declares that the
current reports of his i'll health are "baseiese
and brutal"
A commission has been appointed by the
postmaster general to adjust and equallze
the compensation OF postomce clerks
throughout the country.
The summit of Mount Hood, the loftiest
now-capped peak in Oregon. was VA r hlumi-
The light was plainly visible at distance OF
seyenty-five miles. The work was done by
a party of seven young men from Portland,
two of whom spent the night on top OF the
mount lin at an elevation of 12,7N feet.
They are supposed to be the only persons
ever
NIT of Mount Hood
A natural-gas strike has been made at
Port Huron, Michigan.
Last weeks decree 20 in the visible supply
of wheat in this country amounted to 4,W6,-
645 bushels, of corn to C75, 759 bushels, and
of oats to 125,615 bushels. The present
stock of wheat aggregates -, H3,s!6 bushels,
against &c, 218, 1852 bushels at this time year
ago.
The Textile-Workers' Progressive union,
which has just concluded five days session
at Philadelphia, resolved to make applica-
ton for admission into the confederation of
trades, and recommended independent &C
ton by the assemblies In national and local
politics, whenever practicable"
M. Rouvier's budget, which will be SUBJ
mitted to the French chamber without
delay, makes retrenchments amounting to
l29,000,0O0 francs, which will establish
balance between expenditures and revenue.
The sur-tax on alcohol is abandoned, as well
as the personal tax proposed by the Goblet
ministry.
The receipts at the Chicago stock-yards
for the first half of the week show large
falling off as compared with the past week.
and cattle, hogs, and sheep are selling at
steady prices.
The count of Paris has left the isle of
Jersey for England.
An order has been made by Judge Cave,
of the London bankruptcy court, commit
ting James McHenry, of Erie railway fame,
for two weeks for contempt of court. Execu-
ton of the warrant was, however, suspended
for fortnight.
The compromise scale' has been signed
by the joint committee of the Amalgamated
association and the iron and steel manufac-
turers. The workmen secure an advance
of 10 per cent. in wages, but concede the
"eytras" demanded by the association. This
action averts the danger of general strike
or lockout in the iron and steel industries
during the next twelve months.
A number of "loyal Irish Catholics" all
of them wearing handles to their names
have presented the queen an address of con-
graduation upon her jubilee.
The contract for building the Red River
Valley railroad in Manitoba has been award
ed at Winnipeg, by the provincial authori-
ties. The contractors will begin operation
at once.
France "can not agree that England, by any
pretext, should have the right to perpetual
occupation of Egypt, or that she should be
allowed to reoccupy it for reasons of which
she alone shall judge"
The Scotch yacht Thistle flies thirteen
flags, representing the number of races she
has won. The Thistle will start for America
in about three weeks.
The first installment of the new German
loan-100, OOO, 600 marks-has been subscri-
bed for seven times over, although the books
we're only opened on the 4th. The official |
press of Berlin is jubilant over this pheno-
menal success.
The French government has decided to
carry out the experimental mobilization of
the army as originally proposed.
All the French mayors who participated
in the demonstration in honor of the count of
Paris on the isle of Jersey to be removed.
The deficit in tie French revenue for the
first sly months of 1887 was Is, COG, 600 francs.
The retrenchments proposed by the new
government seem to be absolutely neces-
cary, if France is to escape bankruptcy.
Building operations in New York have
been partly suspended by strike of build
ers' materials cartmen.
The transcontinental lines will, it is I'M
derstood, acting upon the principles laid
down by Judge Deadly, of the United States
court in Oregon, in his recent decision, cut
through rates to meet water competition,
while maintaining "locals."
By an explosion in factory at Arlington,
New Jersey, two persons were killed, twenty
injured, and 1000 to 5000 worth of pro-
perty destroyed.
An epidemic, supposed to be diphtheria,
is raging on Cockburn island, in Lake HUI
ron. Many deaths have occurred, and the
are panic-stricken and fleeing |
for their lives. There is no physician on
The island.
The wheat crop of Ohio is now estimated
at Sc, 1884 GOO bushels, a decrease of 500, 600
bushels from last years yield.
The death of August Frederick Pott, the